BSC2009 – Permaculture – Jesse Lemieux

Jesse Lemieux, now living on Denman Island is a Permaculture educator who has been engaged in Permaculture principles around the globe. His presentation at the Building Sustainable Communities Conference was a primer on Permacultur, the reasons and means to make a difference in sustainable design of human settlemtn and the relationship to the environment and resources..

Permaculture is a set of Patterns for Sustainability

The background –

Peak Oil Impacts

1 barrel of oil 25,000 man hours – 4 cents an hour of labour

4 – 6% decline in oil production

The majority of people in the world will never have the opportunity of wasting energy in the way we have.

Climate Change and Peak Oil

It is the “destructive” use of fossil fuels which is depleting them and exacerbating climate change and pollution.

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Mike Thomas P.Eng. ENV SP, is the author of UrbanWorkbench.com and Director of Engineering at the City of Revelstoke in the Interior of British Columbia, Canada.
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